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Title: Library of the world's best literature, ancient and modern
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: Warner, Charles Dudley, 1829-1900 Mabie, Hamilton Wright, 1846-1916 Runkle, Lucia Isabella Gilbert, 1844- Warner, George H., 1883-1919
Subjects: Literature Literature
Publisher: New York : International Society
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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more than four leagues from his home with-out taking all his furniture with him, as if he were going tothe wars, or about to cross a desert where necessaries cannot behad. Is it quite impossible to wash ones hands in, and drinkfrom, the same vessel ? Will not your candle burn anywherebut in that gold or silver candlestick of yours, which you carrywith you ? Is sleep impossible except upon a variegated mat-tress, or under a foreign coverlet ? Could not one servant har-ness the mule, wait at dinner, and make the bed ? If such amultitude of men and horses is indispensable, w^hy not at leastcarry with us our necessaries, and thus avoid the severe burdenwe are to our hosts ? . . . By the sight of wonderful and costly vanities men areprompted to give, rather than to pray. vSome beautiful pictureof a saint is exhibited — and the brighter the colors the greaterthe holiness attributed to it: men run, eager to kiss; they are MONASTIC L UXUR V. Photogravure from a Painting by Edward Griltzner.
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Fl..-. SAINT BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX 1825 invited to give, and the beautiful is more admired than thesacred is revered. In the churches are suspended, not coroim,but wheels studded with gems and surrounded by lights, whichare scarcely brighter than the precious stones which are nearthem. Instead of candlesticks, we behold great trees of brassfashioned with wonderful skill, and glittering as much throughtheir jewels as their lights. What do you suppose is the objectof all this? The repentance of the contrite, or the admirationof the gazers? O vanity of vanities! but not more vain thanfoolish. The churchs walls are resplendent, but the poor arenot there. . . . The curious find wherewith to amuse them-selves; the wretched find no stay for them in their misery.Why at least do we not reverence the images of the saints,with which the very pavement we walk on is covered ? Oftenan angels mouth is spit into, and the face of some saint troddenon by passers-by. . . . But if we cannot do without the

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